Staff Mechanical Design Engineer, Structures
Company Description:
SARACA is a global engineering R&D services company serving 25+ Fortune 500 customers across MedTech, Aerospace, Rail, Automotive, Semiconductor, Defense, and Farm industries. The organization is ISO 13485 certified and has extensive experience in the design and development of next-generation medical devices, including embedded software, UI/UX, mechanical systems, and product testing. SARACA offers unique expertise in IEC 62304, EU MDR, clinical and performance evaluation reports, and other scientific writings for MedTech. With a technically strong team of 400+ engineers and management consultants, SARACA delivers solutions to complex business problems through onsite and offsite projects worldwide. The company promotes an inclusive, innovation-driven work culture and focuses on helping customers grow faster and lead their industries.
About the Role:
We are seeking an experienced Staff Mechanical Design Engineer to join our Structures Engineering team in Berkeley, CA. In this role, you will champion the structural FEA aspects of our design process for utility-scale multi-day energy storage systems. You will set the standard for excellence in structural analysis, solving complex dynamic and static, linear and nonlinear problem sets for critical load cases such as Transport Shock & Vibration, Seismic, Wind, Snow, and Lifting.
Key Responsibilities:
Perform structural analysis of next-generation product designs utilizing Ansys FEA and hand calculations.
Establish best practices for analysis methodology, pass/fail criteria, and calculator tools/spreadsheets for standard load cases and joint analyses.
Work closely with the test team to run test campaigns, establish material libraries, and validate designs through test-FEA correlation.
Collaborate cross-functionally with designers and test engineers to offer proactive design solutions balancing structural optimization, weight reduction, cost-down, and DFMA.Perform failure root-cause analysis on systems and complex assemblies.
Present analysis and test results to leadership and broader engineering teams during design reviews.
Required Qualifications
Education & Experience:
Bachelor’s degree in Mechanical Engineering or a related field with 7+ years of professional industry experience in mechanical design and structural analysis.
Technical Skills:
Proven experience leading design work for complex mechanical structures using Ansys FEA (dynamic, static, linear, and non-linear simulations).Manufacturing Knowledge: Proficient in component design for mass manufacturing and assembly (DFMA), specifically sheet metal, stampings, and weldments.
CAD Proficiency: Highly capable in computer-aided design, specifically SolidWorks modeling.
Work Ethic: Strong sense of urgency and self-driven mindset to hit aggressive schedule targets.
Preferred Qualifications:
- Experience analyzing civil/mechanical structures per ASCE 7-22 and AISC-360 standards.
- Skills Mechanical DesignFinite Element Analysis (FEA)
- AnsysSolidWorksDesign for Manufacturing (DFFM)
- Sheet Metal Design